CameoAmalthea
Pro Adventurer
I love the black suits. Stereo typical, but for a reason. Black suits are serious, somewhat frightening.
I also really love monocrome, so it could be personal preference. I tend to say 'dark' suits when I write to avoid commenting on the color, cosplay wise I go for black because it's simpler.
I'd like to add that as Rufus was involved in the conspiracy to fake the Turks deaths, he couldn't very well bring them back without question. Reeve would have supported him, but the rest of the Board might have well had grounds to stage a coup if it would mean more power.
No one can know the other Turks survived.
President Shinra Sr. wasn't going to fund the Turks to hire new recruits. He thought the old group was a threat and wouldn't want then to grow into a large and possibly dangerous faction. Especially if they're loyal to Rufus, because the President knows Rufus might himself pose a threat.
Rufus convinced the President to let the Turks live and everything he did was part of a calculated plan, which most likely included only keeping the senior members around and faking the other's death. It's an easier sell to get the President to spare 3 Turks than a dozen.
The department was saved by Rufus, but it was gutted. Its funding was slashed, its numbers were reduced, and it was absorbed into Heidegger's department.
What I got from this
is that Scarlet is a not very nice lady and Tseng is sarcastic. Also the Turks don't have a lot of funding and Tseng doesn't seem particularly enthused about Heidegger. None of this is contradicted by BC.
In any case, the Turks are a shadow of their former self and why would the President allow them to recruit more people?
Elena is actually the perfect recruit because she came to them, she's trained (The girl got top marks at a highly competitive military academy), and she has family ties to the Turks. Tseng knows Gun did well, and Elena's transcripts recommend her. They might not have the budget or permission to hire her right away, but they can keep her close. She requires minimal investment.
When Reno is briefly put out of commission they promote her because she's promoted to the Turks. By that point Rufus is President and he'd probably be willing to sign an executive order giving Tseng whatever he wanted because the Turks are his.
Of course, Rufus can't rebuild the department just yet. There are more pressing matters to attend to, like the end of the world. He can't risk a coup by brining the old Turks back and right now they don't have a lot of time to train a ton of new recruits. There's work to be done, Sephiroth must be found, threats to planet must be answered.
The plot of BC makes sense with the original game. Elena makes sense as a likely hire because she's right there and pre-trained. The Turks aren't exactly in a position to be scouting talent, after all.
Now I'm going to make the unpopular statement that I like the BC retcons for the most part.
Or rather, they're retcons of a sort I don't mind, retcons that could exist, that don't over right so much as fill in possible gaps by providing "how and why" to previously unanswered questions.
We know Nanaki is not in fact the last of his kind because he reproduces. This raises the question of "how?" BC fills in a gap by giving us a female. It's no more illogical than to suppose that in all his years Nanaki had never seen a female of his kind but then finds one post game. Where did she come from and why didn't he know about her? Either way, there's gaps in logic.
With Rocket Town, I liked the idea that it was sabotage rather than mistake that led to fault with the rocket. We know something went wrong, BC adds a 'how and why did it go so wrong' but that doesn't fundamentally alter the story. In fact, I like having Shera seem even less culpable. It's no longer a matter of waiting until the last minute to check something that should have been checked thoroughly way before the launch time, it's checking for sabotage that occurred right before the launch leaving no time to check way before hand without delaying the launch.
Even with Corel, the gist I got from the original game is Shinra suspects the people of Corel are responsible for the reactor blowing up so Scarlet destroys the city. What I got from BC is the reactor blows up due to terrorist action and Shinra still holds Corel responsible and destroys the city. If anything it makes Shinra worse because they knew the parties to blame did not originate in Corel.
Either way, Shinra wrongly destroyed Corel and Barret has every reason to hate them. Barret's story isn't dependent on whether the reactor blew up because due to terrorist action or bizzarre accident, it's dependent on Shinra wrongly blaming and punishing Corel. In either case, it happens, and again I see BC as merely filling in a "how and why" of an unexplained event. In this case, "how did the reactor blow up?"
